Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sadako Ogata, is a Japanese diplomat, scholar and administrator. She served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 until 2001. She was appointed as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency on October 1, 2003 and is still serving as of October 2009. Her mother was a grandchild of Inukai Tsuyoshi and was influenced by his liberal political attitude. She was born in Tokyo, and is Roman Catholic. She attended the Catlin Gabel School, class of 1946, and graduated from University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, before studying at Georgetown University and its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.